¶ Individual Economic Initiative (1)
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I said, ‘What can a little man effect toward such realizations in the face of the formidable power of great corporations, and all their know-how, guns, monies, armies, tools, and information?’ Then, self-answering: ‘The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission.’ Only individuals can think, and can look for the principles manifest in their experiences that others may be overlooking because they are too preoccupied with how to please some boss or with how to earn money, how to take care of today’s bills. Only the individual disregards his spontaneous fears and commits himself
(a) to employing his every opportunity, meager or great, and exploring for physical ways of employing those principles on behalf of humanity-- and
(b) eschews just philosophizing and trying as an author to persuade others to think and act in different ways-- and
© commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment by developing tools which cope more effectively and ’
¶ Citations
- RBF in Michael Ben-Eli Interview, AD, Dec’72
